Will Jesus return on a white horse?

[Zen Badger]

Seems I'm not alone in my conclusions about the waste of time talking to people who want to take a time machine back and talk in person to Jesus Christ before they will believe he even existed.

http://bede.org.uk/price1.htm from this page the following..

Scholarly opinions on the Jesus Myth by Christopher Price

I have often been asked why more academics do not take the time to respond to the Jesus Myth theory. After looking into this question, I discovered that most historians and New Testament scholars relevant to the topic have concluded that Jesus Mythers are beyond reason and therefore decide that they have better things to do with their time.

Michael Grant

In his book Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels, Atheist historian Michael Grant completely rejected the idea that Jesus never existed.



This sceptical way of thinking reached its culmination in the argument that Jesus as a human being never existed at all and is a myth.... But above all, if we apply to the New Testament, as we should, the same sort of criteria as we should apply to other ancient writings containing historical material, we can no more reject Jesus' existence than we can reject the existence of a mass of pagan personages whose reality as historical figures is never questioned. Certainly, there are all those discrepancies between one Gospel and another. But we do not deny that an event ever took place just because some pagan historians such as, for example, Livy and Polybius, happen to have described it in differing terms.... To sum up, modern critical methods fail to support the Christ myth theory. It has 'again and again been answered and annihilated by first rank scholars.' In recent years, 'no serous scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.

in case you missed it "It has 'again and again been answered and annihilated by first rank scholars.' " so if you wont believe first rank scholars or even one of the most pre-eminent athiest historical scholar give me a good reason to believe it would be a productive use of my time to say more on the topic of did Jesus Christ exist.

That's nice, but do you have contemporary accounts of his life like I originally asked for?

You know, the ancient historians that you mentioned etc.

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And as a riposte to your link......